Inventions
These goos are from the Inventions category, people famous for inventing or promoting technology. Browse another way.
Ada Lovelace
The world's first computer programmer might only have been remembered for her poet father if she hadn't been inspired by Charles Babbage. Go »
Alan Turing
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Andreas Pavel
Long before you walked around enjoying music on your phone or MP3 player, this inventor first made it possible, not that Sony credited him. Go »
Arthur Scherbius
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August Dvorak
The letters "afuf;k h.soav" would spell the answer, if you typed it on a keyboard named after this educator. Go »
Bette Nesmith Graham
She certainly wasn't monkeying around when she decided to paint over her mistakes. Go »
Chester Carlson
Copying the ideas of this inventor would infringe on several of the patents he owned. Go »
Chip Foose
His expertise with automotive design helped him overhaul more than one classic car for TLC. Go »
Dean Kamen
What began as a mobility aid for the handicapped has become a space-age tool for the incredibly lazy. Go »
Deep Blue
This skilled player proved that anyone can beat a chess grandmaster if they can calculate 200 million moves per second. Go »
Dorian Nakamoto
Even if a good man wrote 100,000,000 articles about this guy, we still wouldn't know if he was who we were looking for. Go »
Ed Headrick
This inventor was steady when he became the founder of the IFA. Go »
Edward Craven Walker
His inventions lit up the 1960s counter-culture, and he did his part by operating a naturist resort. Go »
Edwin Shoemaker
Live by the sword, die by the sword. Or in this inventor's case, the comfortable chair. Go »
Elon Musk
This real-life Iron Man made his vast fortune by co-founding an alliterative Internet company. Go »
Eugene Stoner
The Vietnam War wouldn't exactly have been fought with sticks and stones if this gun designer's weapons hadn't existed, but he did lift a burden from the soldiers all the same. Go »
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
This German military officer's legacy went up in flames after he invented a new form of transportation. Go »
Gordon Moore
The reasoning power necessary to solve celebrity goos doubles every two years, according to a prediction by this intel-ligent businessman. Go »
Hans Reiser
This tech celebrity namesys a famous piece of storage software after himself and then likely killed his wife. Go »
Harold Edgerton
This Alley-dwelling Doc was the true inventor of bullet time. Go »
Horace Lawson Hunley
The Confederacy needed a strong navy to win the Civil War, but the ship created by this inventor failed to make a splash. Go »
Jack Ma
This sesame-loving entrepreneur didn't create your mother's web portal. Go »
Jean Pain
This Frenchman took great pains to make something useful with his Pooh. Go »
Jethro Tull
This British agriculturalist invented a horse-drawn seed drill and a horse-drawn hoe, revolutionizing the industry. Go »
John DeLorean
This engineer and business executive created a number of classic cars from Pontiac's GTO to the Firebird, but his name will forever be linked to the unpainted, gull-winged flop that put his company out of business in the 1980s but was spotted above Hill Valley, California as recently as 2015. Go »
John Knoll
I'd imagine thIs guy wouLd have no trouble gooing his own iMage using Photoshop. Go »
John McAfee
He protects your computer from viruses even after death, but he couldn't protect his many other businesses from going under, or protect himself from charges of murder and tax evasion. Go »
John Montagu
This 18th-century nobleman held many offices in the British government and navy, but he's best remembered for developing a way to eat a meal that's the best thing since sliced bread. Go »
Joseph Henry
Before his invention, people would stand outside a house and think, "I'm going to punch your house until you come out and talk to me." Go »
Joseph Weizenbaum
A computer scientist from Germany who created ELIZA, the first natural language processing computer program, in the mid-1960s at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Go »
Kai Krause
He gave the gift of Goo to the world, and this game could never have happened without him. Go »
Larry Tesler
Too bad we couldn't copy and paste him before he died. Go »
Lars Magnus Ericsson
the answer is calling - pick up! Go »
Lenny Lipton
His life would come full circle if you saw a 3-D film about a magic dragon. Go »
Linus Torvalds
This colonel of open source just turned 26. Go »
MatÃas Duarte
Just for kicks, I'll try the webbed Chilean honeycomb cooked in palm oil. Go »
Mikhail Kalashnikov
He invented the submachinegun (and the AK-47 in 1949), but didn't get a patent until recently. Go »
Morris Michtom
Don't give this bear a big Russian hug until your little kid gets a stuffed toy. Go »
Nikola Tesla
This Serbian-American inventor is best remembered for the alternating-current electric coil that bears his name, though he's also the name of a magnetic density measurement and a heavy metal band. Go »
Noah McVicker
This inventor's beloved children's toy can also clean your wallpaper. Go »
Otis Boykin
In the end, the only heart he couldn't control was his own. Go »
Otto Frederick Rohwedder
Any way you slice it, this goo created the benchmark of modern invention. Go »
Philo T. Farnsworth
Do not attempt to adjust the picture! This Mormon inventor held hundreds of patents during his life, but his most influential invention remains one of his first, which he produced at age 14. Go »
Rachid Yazami
This African would like people to keep talking about how he stored up his creative ideas for so long before using them. Go »
Ralph Baer
Kutaragi, Nakayama, Uemura, and Bushnell all owe homage to this inventor. Go »
Ralph Gilles
One way to become the rock star of the auto industry is to make a car-of-the-year so hot that not even Snoop Dogg can get one. Go »
Rasmus Lerdorf
This dynamic web site, and many others, wouldn't run without this linguist. Go »
Richard Steiff
Naming this German boy Teddy would have been a big mistake, but unlike a bear you can cuddle him. Go »
Samuel Colt
Contributing the revolver to American warfare, and mass production techniques to manufacturing, made him a thoroughbred success. Go »
Sean Parker
First he invented something that threatened the end of the music business. Then he invested in something that promised to save it. Go »
Shawn Fanning
This college student stopped napping long enough to program software that changed the music business forever. Go »
Stepan Pachikov
Have this guy write you a paragragh and you should instantly recognize him by his handwriting. Go »
Stephen Wolfram
If you want to know how to add two violent animals together (as in his last name), ask his search engine. Go »
Steve Jobs
This entrepreneur has had several fruitful careers in the computer industry. Go »
Steve Jobs
Apple's long road to tech industry dominance began with the commercial release of the very first Mac by this job creator. Go »
Steve Wilhite
This computer scientist helped us visualize things in new ways, especially memes, even if we can't agree on how to pronounce his most famous creation. Go »
Susan Bennett
If you search for help with this goo using Apple products, this might be the first time where you can hear the answer in the celebrity's own voice. Go »
Thomas Crapper
The bathroom is home to his most famous invention, which shares his name. Go »
Thomas Edison
More than any other goo, this inventor should make a light bulb appear over your head when you recognize him. Go »
Ward Cunningham
If you've ever enjoyed a collaboratively-edited website, then you can thank this programmer and his Hawaiian vacation for inspiration. Go »
Wernher von Braun
Building a car and composing music wasn't rocket science for this space cadet. Go »
